Only Showing Readability Statistics

Hi Andy,

Wow. Just brilliant. Works a treat. Thank you so much.

Will let my author friends know there's now a solution to getting readability stats by sentence and paragraph in Word 365.

And give you full credit for it.

You also ought to publicise this solution yourself.

With best regards,

Jim

Jim, try this macro. It is the same as Allen's except with the change I suggested and an error-check to make sure that some text is selected.

Andy.

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Sub Readability_Selected()
Dim DocStats As String
Dim MBTitle As String
Dim J As Integer

MBTitle = "Readability Statistics"
DocStats = ""

if Selection.Type = wdSelectionIP then
MsgBox "No text is selected.", vbOKOnly, MBTitle
Exit Sub
endif

With Selection.Range
For J = 1 to 10
DocStats = DocStats & .ReadabilityStatistics(J)
DocStats = DocStats & ": "
DocStats = DocStats & .ReadabilityStatistics(J).Value
DocStats = DocStats & vbCrLf
Next J
End With
MsgBox DocStats, vbOKOnly, MBTitle
End Sub

Hi Andy,Thanks for the message and instructions.With my document open, and a sentence selected, I opened the Macros window from the View tab, named the macro Selection.Range as you suggested, and clicked the Create button. It then opened a separate Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window with - Sub Range ().Selection.Range Macro. End SubGo back to my document with the selected sentence, click Macros on the View tab, click View Macros, and the name and highlighted Macro is now listed as Range. The field Macros in: box has 'All active templates and documents'.I then click the Run button highlighted, and that window disappears, but the Editor does not appear with the readability stats for the sentence.On the document page, click Word Count in the Proofing section and it gives the number of words in the sentence. Click the Editor adjacent to it, and it gives the stats for the whole document only. So the Macro doesn't seem to work - or maybe I'm not doing it right. I've never used Macros before.Aside from this, I also just found that if I right-click on my selected sentence, I get an option to 'Review Selection in Editor'. This apparently is supposed to give me the readability stats for my selection, which is what I want. However clicking on this option, I get a message saying 'We've finished checking your selection. Want to check the rest of the document?' Options, Yes or No. I click No but no Editor comes up with stats for the selection. So, that's not working either. Maybe there's another setting somewhere which is blocking this feature. If so, I'd love to know what it is.Thanks and regards,Jim

Jim, the .ReadabilityStatistics property applies to any Document object or Range object. In this Case, Allen used the Range Object associated with the entire main story of the document (= ActiveDocument.Content). For your purpose, try replacing ActiveDocument.Content in Allen's macro with Selection.Range.

Andy.

Hi Allen,

Found your very interesting website when searching for the answer to my very specific problem with readability stats in Word 365. Hope you can help me find that answer.

I'm a professional writer and just upgraded from Office 2010 to Office 365. To my horror, in Word 365, I now can’t get my readability stats by sentence and paragraph, only by full document. This was one of the greatest tools MS provided. I use it every hour of every day to give my readers the best experience. Why would they upgrade a flagship product and take out a key function? It’s illogical. I now have to use shabby old Word 2010 rather than shiny new Word 365 to get this facility. it’s ridiculous. Feel duped. Is there any way I can get readability stats by sentence and paragraph in Word 365?

I've tried every avenue I can find within MS, but can't get any sensible response. In your opinion, is there an answer, or am I chasing a lost cause?

Regards,

Jim

Just letting you know that the ndex order has changed in Word 2016. Changes are:
8 = Flesch Reading Ease
9 = Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
10 = Passive Sentences

Hi Allan, I have the same problem as Daniel, the passive sentence count always shows up as 0. If you could help with this, would be very grateful.

Hiya,

This macro doesn't work for (breaks?) the passive voice stat. Any suggestions?

Yes! Sometimes I need to see this in the middle of an edit and didn't know how to get access to it (other than running a spell check). Again, thank you! :)